Six treated for deadly C Diff bug

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NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde said that six patients are suffering from the illness at the Victoria Infirmary in Glasgow.

They are being treated in an isolation ward at the hospital.

Another ward at the hospital has closed to new admissions as three patients in the ward have suspected viral gastroenteritis.

The health board said that no patients are giving cause for concern as a direct result of either infection.

The news comes the day after the C diff bacterium was linked to 90 deaths in England by a Healthcare Commission study.

Police and health and safety officials are investigating Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust after poor hygiene standards were linked to patient deaths at the Kent and Sussex Hospital, Pembury Hospital and Maidstone Hospital.

Health Secretary Alan Johnson ordered that severance payments to Rose Gibb be withheld after she stepped down as head of Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust.

Clostridium difficile, or C diff, is a severe form of infectious diarrhoea, which can be fatal. The Clostridium family also includes the bacteria that cause tetanus, botulism and gas gangrene.

The difficulty in controlling C diff is that it produces spores that can survive for a long time in the environment.